Will to Literature
David Trotter: Modernism plc, 13 May 1999
Institutions of Modernism: Literary Elites and Public Culture
by Lawrence Rainey.
Yale, 227 pp., £16.95, January 1999,0 300 07050 0 Show More
by Lawrence Rainey.
Yale, 227 pp., £16.95, January 1999,
Modernism, Technology and the Body: A Cultural Study
by Tim Armstrong.
Cambridge, 309 pp., £14.95, March 1998,0 521 59997 0 Show More
by Tim Armstrong.
Cambridge, 309 pp., £14.95, March 1998,
Body Ascendant: Modernism and the Physical Imperative
by Harold Segel.
Johns Hopkins, 282 pp., £30, September 1998,0 8018 5821 6 Show More
by Harold Segel.
Johns Hopkins, 282 pp., £30, September 1998,
Solid Objects: Modernism and the Test of Production
by Douglas Mao.
Princeton, 308 pp., £32.50, November 1998,0 691 05926 8 Show More
by Douglas Mao.
Princeton, 308 pp., £32.50, November 1998,
“... awareness. The somatic is scholarly box-office these days, and hot on Armstrong’s heels comes Harold Segel’s Body Ascendant, about the Modernist preoccupation with varieties of physical culture, from pantomime and dance to blood sports. ‘The campaign against tradition was dynamic and aggressive, and it sought to subordinate the virtues of the ... ”
